i made it. please note: the keyboards here are different than in the states; some of the keys are in different places and the punctuation is hard to find.
i am using the computer at school. i don't start teaching until oct. 1 but today i sat in on a few classes. the kids, for the most part, were very nice but shy and giggly. ah, just like in america. i was pretty nervous but it went well.
my french absolutely sucks. i thot it would not but hardly anyone can understand me and the feeling is mutual. i keep waiting for my breakthru.
my studio is very tiny but free, so who cares? have yet to taste any champagne but soon, soon.
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parker, if you're reading this, my post time is one hour behind what it should be. we are not on greenwich mean time; we are one hour ahead.
Posted by nikki c | septembre 21, 2004 2:30 PM
Posted on septembre 21, 2004 14:30
Glad to hear you're there intact, and that you can get online and post. I made the time-zone shift in the configuration, but I think it applies to posts going forward, not older ones.
Waiting for the breakthrough is the way to go. I think my biggest mistake in Russia was getting too discouraged about my language skills and relying too much on my more-fluent American friends, so I never got much better. When I finally started dreaming in Russian (the stage where they say you're truly fluent,) I couldn't understand the dreams. (I'm not kidding - I had dreams in a language I couldn't understand.)
If you weren't ready for this to be challenging, you wouldn't have gone.
Posted by pjm | septembre 21, 2004 3:56 PM
Posted on septembre 21, 2004 15:56